Category Archives: Society

All four of my readers know that I’ve been recently concerned about child-friendly instant lottery games from the Pennsylvania Lottery.  I’ll be writing to my representatives in Harrisburg and to the folks at the PA Lottery, asking them to consider adding a warning label to the front of instant lottery games and other lottery tickets.Continue reading “Modest Proposal: Lottery Warning Labels”

Another example of an obviously child-friendly lottery game, brought to you and your children by our friends at the Pennsylvania Lottery Commission. Why does this bother me? Three reasons:   I don’t like state-sponsored gambling in the first place. It seems to me that my state government could find better ways to fund its budgetContinue reading “Child-Friendly Gambling”

So yesterday I was in the grocery store buying duck for the holidays, and as I was checking out I saw a little girl looking longingly into a vending machine, asking her mom if she can have one. A candy machine? No. A machine with little toys? No. An instant lottery game produced by theContinue reading “Pennsylvania Markets Gambling to Kids”

So our "friends" over at shop.bowlerhatsolutions.co.uk have an IRS refund scam going. I was sent an email at work with this link (also above), and asked to enter my name. I entered "Phred Flintsone." The next screen told me that I have a $346.74 refund coming my way. Woo Hoo! Now, all I have toContinue reading “You’ve got to be really stupid to believe this . . .”